Thursday, March 29, 2007

May I just say I am beginning to tire of the woolly liberal blanket coverage of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition Of The Slave Trade Act? Apologise my arse.

How's about Tony Blair and the Archbeardy of Canterbury offering an apology to the people of Ireland for being complicit in the Irish Famine a mere 162 years ago?

A previous famine in 1782 was alleviated somewhat by the closure of ports to Irish food exports to England, this did not happen in the disasterous 1845-1849 one and indeed the food exports increased during it under armed guard. Figures for deaths related to this famine range from 50,000 to over a million and the knock-on immigration of Irish refugees numbered 2 million.

Okay your turn... pick your own human injustice. First Nation Americans anyone?

1 comment:

redhairedqueer said...

Hee hee hee.

Yeah, we're sorry that our ancestors, who we never met, were nasty to your ancestors, who you never met either.

Now fucking get over it.